On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:39, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's a sketch of where I'm going with the initialization, finalization, and fallback method locating. We need to do this because we're in the semi-unenviable position of supporting multiple languages that do this but that *don't* aggree on method names. So we can't depend on those.
So, what we're going to do is introduce six properties:
FALLBACK CONSTRUCT BUILD FINALIZE DELETE CLEANUP
Suppose I have, for the sake of argument, a pointer to a struct that comes from an external C library. In which method under this scheme would I tell that library to free the memory?
Should be FINALIZE.
As I look at that list I get a distinct "What the *hell* was I thinking?" feeling, though. I'm trying to figure out what the point of DELETE and CLEANUP were.
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